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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious death at Broadway and Nassau in Brooklyn, a pedestrian struck at the Van Wyck Expressway and Rockaway Boulevard and an all points bulletin in the 10th Precinct area of Manhattan.
  • A male body was found in Silver Lake Park on Staten Island.
  • A ring of 10 people, including a doctor and physical therapist, were charged with faking millions in claims for 500 (fake) patients.
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick appeared on Charlie Rose to discuss, yes, the New Yorker's Obamas cover.
  • Kottke looks at the Life magazine photograph of a 1947 suicide off the Empire State Building.
  • At the Patagonia stores on the UWS and in Soho, you can vote on which environmental advocacy groups should get $4,000 grants.
  • And the 19-year-old who wore a 6-foot-tall penis costume at a Saratoga Springs high school graduation was sentenced to 24 hours of community service, paying court fees and apologizing to the city in a local newspaper.
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  • NannyState

    That photo is iconic and also disturbing because it sends this message that if you jump to your death, the result will be as comely and peaceful-looking as her death. People considering jumping should see what usually happens as described above. Why put anyone else through that?

  • Robot

    She looks very peaceful, not what I'd expect after falling 86 floors.

    She also dressed well for her suicide, delicate white gloves and all.

  • Rocknrope

    That suicide picture is amazing. I've always heard that bodies look horrid when they land - eyeballs popping out of skulls, jaw's torn off, etc. I guess she was the exception.

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